Three-handed dial.



Pate' nted Mar. u, I902.

W. H. NEWBY.v iTHBEE-HANDED D IAL.

(Application filed July 11, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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THREE-HANDED DIAL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Eatent No. 695,074, dated March 1 1, 1902.

' Application filed July 11, 1901. $orial No. 67,887. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. NEWBY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Three-Handed Dials, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in signals to be used in shops, offices, schoolrooms, and the like to inform those who are not present at the hour for assembling of the fact of their tardiness upon their arrival and to provide an effective object lesson which will impress upon the mind the importance of promptness.

I accomplish the objects of the invention by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of my invention with the tardy-hand closed, and Fig. 2 a like view with the tardy-hand in open or exposed position.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts throughout the several views of the drawings.

A represents an ordinary clock-face graduated and numbered to represent hours and fractions thereof in the usual manner, and B a suitable body of wood, metal, or paperboard of sufficient thickness to be rigid and strong.

0 is the hour-hand,andD the minute-hand, both of which are pivotally secured at the center of the face A, the pivot a being sufficiently tight to create friction enough to hold the hands in any position of the dial at which they may be set. The face of the dial inside of the hour-signs may be blank or may contain an appropriate design and legend, as shown in the drawings.

E is the tardy-hand, which is pivotally secured at one of its ends to the body B, preferably to the top of the frame, and the pivot will. preferably be an eyelet f, which will afford a means for securing the tardy-hand and also for hanging up the device by" passing it over a hook or nail anchored in the wall. The tardy-hand will be longer than the vertical dimensions of the body B to cause it to project below the body when in its closed position, as shown in Fig. 1, in order that the end projecting below the body may be readily taken hold of to move it into its open or elevated position. (Shown in Fig. 2.) The tardyhand will bear a suitable device or inscription appropriate to the use for which it is intended, that shown in the drawings being a rebus Behind hand.

When hanging on the wall, my invention presents the appearance of an ordinary clock, as shown in Fig. 1. The hands should be set at the time appointed for the shop, school, or the like. Nhen that time has been reached, the tardy-hand is raised, as shown in Fig. 2, so that he who comes in late reads that he is behind hand.

I have used this invention with great success in Sunday-schools and consider it particularly adapted to spur up a prompt attendance.

Having thus fully described myinvention, what I claim as new, and Wish to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

' In a tardy-signal, a body, an hour-dial thereon, an hour and a minute hand pivotally 

